Real-Life Weirdness

[L.J.Steele]

Bulldog elected mayor in small town

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifes...hash-kentucky/

The town has never had a human mayor, but each election cycle, people from around the world cast their votes to elect a canine one. It’s mostly just fun and a distraction from the tension of human politics, but each voter pays $1 per vote and proceeds go to the Rabbit Hash Historical Society. This year, they raised nearly $23,000.

Possible plot seed with uplifted animals?

[Pragmatic]

Originally Posted by L.J.Steele

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Possible plot seed with uplifted animals?

There's an Alternate Earth where cloning was figured out REALLY early (there's a lot of Alexander the Great clones to govern the various regions).

They managed to create a viable human/chimp chimera species. And one of them was elected to a political position.

I'm probably misremembering the details...

And in a Sci F novel, Fiben Bolger (a blue-card neo-chimp) is vehemently opposed to the attempts to parlay his war hero status (and sudden white-card status) into a political career.

[thorr-kan]

Originally Posted by Pragmatic

There's an Alternate Earth where cloning was figured out REALLY early (there's a lot of Alexander the Great clones to govern the various regions).

They managed to create a viable human/chimp chimera species. And one of them was elected to a political position.

I'm probably misremembering the details...

And in a Sci F novel, Fiben Bolger (a blue-card neo-chimp) is vehemently opposed to the attempts to parlay his war hero status (and sudden white-card status) into a political career.

And at the end of The Uplift War (the novel in question), Fiben realizes how unlikely the success of his opposition is going to be...

[Irish Wolf]

Originally Posted by thorr-kan

And at the end of The Uplift War (the novel in question), Fiben realizes how unlikely the success of his opposition is going to be...

His own fault, really. If the chims hadn't gone and uplifted the rillas, they'd have just been a client race of the Terragens Council, instead of suddenly becoming players in galactic politics.

[L.J.Steele]

Japanese monster wolf robots -- because 2020, y'all...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...to-deter-bears

[Anders]

Seems we're getting closer to beamed power:

Going beyond the anti-laser

Anti-laser sounds like another interesting concept. Maybe it's the reflec version of reactive armor.

[Kale]

Originally Posted by Anders

Seems we're getting closer to beamed power:

Going beyond the anti-laser

Anti-laser sounds like another interesting concept. Maybe it's the reflec version of reactive armor.

Eh, it's similar to a phased array where you tune the properties of the generator to compensate for obstacles etc. on the way to the receiver. Apparently if you do it a certain way you can get the absorber to collect virtually all the energy.

[Anders]

Dead piglets found over central Copenhagen.

Now, the official story is that this was done by an animal rights' group... but other possibilities abound.

1) sacrifices in a ritual designed to control the future of Denmark
2) an attempt to control the minds of the people from the European Environmental Agency, located in Copenhagen
3) a message from the aliens to the Illuminati - we know what you're up to
4) a new virus that spontaneously turns people into piglets and then kills them

[Anders]

Scientists splice human genes into monkey brains.

This caused the monkey brains to double in size. I mean, what could possibly go wrong?

All aboard the Uplift train!

[L.J.Steele]

Monolith! Who had uplift for 2020?

Utah helicopter crew discovers mysterious metal monolith deep in the desert

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/ut...rnd/index.html